The Last Straw: Nostalgia was rampant at the Planxty concert on Wednesday night. Everywhere you looked in Vicar Street, you could see people having misty-eyed memories of the 1970s. A man beside me in ...

Since Planxty was probably my all time favorite band of the trad-folk revival many moons ago, it has been an unfulfilled dream to see them reunited and doing a U.S. tour. While the starting four of ...

In the first of the latest run of the series by Jim Comet, the Cork music aficionado picks his favourite concert records Jim Comet, centre, picks David Bowie and the Velvet Underground amid his ...

Planxty drew from a deep well of traditional music and set the standard for others to follow. Siobhán Long on a new book about the raggle taggle kings of trad They belong in that pantheon populated by ...